Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.

Alexandra Kleeman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 26, 1986

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I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

Jessye Norman

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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

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I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

John Dingell

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That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

Michael J. Fox

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I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I'm here for a bigger purpose, and I want to be a role model and speak for the black community and black women specifically. Humor was the way it felt most organic and effective for me.

Amanda Seales

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There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'

Romola Garai

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I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

Julia Sawalha

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I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.

Jay Park

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I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

Jason Reitman

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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Joseph Barbera

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If we're going to truly solve the problems of the world, we've got to share our information whenever we can and strategically include one another in or efforts.

Cherie Blair

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

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